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Moroccan film production was slow to develop into a credible film industry, but today it is the most productive and successful industry in the Maghreb, and arguably in the Arab world. As Jamal Bahmad, expert on Moroccan cinema, has argued, it is mainly since the 1990s, and the relaxation of censorship laws as well as a renewed investment in the arts, that a new energy has been injected into Moroccan cinema. The importance of the urban, young, creative generations is visible in this trend: the Moroccan Cinema Centre (CCM, based in Rabat) invited a large number of new, young Moroccan filmmakers to attend the Tangiers National Film Festival in 1997. This landmark event gave Moroccan cinema a new impetus: New Urban Cinema (NUC) was born (Bahmad 2013).
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Bahmad, Jamal. 2013. ‘Casablanca Unbound: New Urban Cinema in Morocco’, Francosphères, 2 (1): 73–85.
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Van de Peer, S. (2015). Morocco. In: Nelmes, J., Selbo, J. (eds) Women Screenwriters. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312372_6
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